Word: foregrounds
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Tokyo Godfathers' portrayal of the metropolis is so fresh and stark that it's hard to view the city in the same slick way again. Tokyo's bright-eyed homeless men, the occasional sashaying transvestite, and the teenage girls languishing in the shadows like lost children shift into the foreground, while the usual symbols of the capital suddenly seem irrelevant...
...Making a New World (1918). The sun sends searchlight beams through clouds the color of dried blood, illuminating blasted trees and pitted khaki sludge. In The Menin Road (1919) Nash depicts the ravaged battleground almost as a Renaissance altarpiece, complete with symbolism and grand scale. In the foreground, the sickly light reflects off a flooded shellhole in which a uniform and helmet float, surrounded by rusty fronds of barbed wire, concrete blocks and curls of corrugated iron. The many limbless trees have more presence than the two small humans who scuttle across the canvas. Its wide angle and transformation...
While members joined for many different reasons, FIPJ members forced political issues to the foreground of their debates...
STEVEN HOLL: LIGHT, MATERIAL AND DETAIL. The highly celebrated American architect enjoys a double exhibition across MIT’s campus. Holl’s buildings foreground the subjective experience of their inhabitants. Works examined include the Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art, Holl’s expansion to the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City and MIT’s very own Simmons Hall dormitory. Through April 16. Free. Hours: Mondays through Fridays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wolk Gallery, MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Mondays to Fridays 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m, Compton Gallery...
...psychedelic astral storm, raging to a soundtrack of electronic bleeps and retro '70s rock. In a 45-minute video loop, a twisting cloud vortex is projected onto a long rectangular screen, morphing through the colors of the rainbow while meteorite showers and 3-D computer incrustations drift across the foreground. "I'd like people to look at it like they'd look at a sunset," says Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, the artist responsible for Exotourisme. "I wanted to blur the boundaries between a work of art and an amusement-park ride...